W-Honky is our favourite instrument by de moment. It is the imitation of the “Mrs Mills” sound, a piano from Abbey Road Studios with which The Beatles, Elliot Smith, etc, recorded some of their tracks. We’ve achieved this sound with the combination of two different sounds. One is a vertical piano (Kawai from 1984) mixed with a digitally… Read More »
The ’90s saw the birth of a new instrumental genre called smooth jazz. Born by combining the great funky jazz instrumentals of the ’70s with the keep em’ on the floor R&B dance grooves of the late ’80s, smooth jazz has become a constant on radio airwaves across the country. Likewise, producer Jeff Carruthers has become a constant… Read More »
Adam Monroe’s Honky-Tonk Piano is a 16-bit Piano Sample Library VST plugin for windows based operating systems. Useful to anyone looking for a worn (but in-tune) piano sound, suitable for playing ragtime or any style of music that requires a dirtier, grittier sound. Includes 32/64-bit versions, Reverb, Delay, Chorus, Lo-Fi, equalization, partial round-robin, and pedal/non pedal samples. Year… Read More »
Ivory Grand Pianos combines “world-class” piano samples with a powerful software/DSP engine and custom user interface. Highlights of Ivory Grand Pianos: Over 77 Gigabytes of Acoustic Grand Piano sampled instruments (Each piano can be installed separately): Bösendorfer 290 Imperial Grand. Steinway D Concert Grand. Yamaha c7 Grand. Up to 18 discrete velocity layers with Sample Interpolation Technology for… Read More »
GSi describes Key Performer as “the Swiss Army knife of the modern gigging keyboardist”. It’s a single software instrument which offers a wide variety of keyboard sounds that are used in almost all musical genres where a keyboardist is involved. To summarize a few of its key features, it offers: Several classic keyboard sounds including pianos, electric pianos,… Read More »
Electric Grand EG70 is a physical modeling simulation of a CP-70 electro-acoustic baby grand touring piano. EG70 has a very natural response to keyboard dynamics and to the player’s style. You’ll hear the benefits of physical modeling mostly when the sustain pedal is in use. The sound is warm and metallic at the same time, unpredictable, rich and… Read More »
Chocolate EP is a VSTi plug-in with three smooth sounding electric piano sounds. These Rhodes-like sounds have been used in the popular Neo Soul construction kit series ‘Smooth Keyz” by Live Soundz Productions, ‘Neo Soul Awards’ by Big Citi Loops as well as many Soul, R&B and Gospel projects. These multi sampled Rhodes will give you high quality… Read More »
Wahnsyn – the Concerto 2 – with concerts, we have succeeded in truly authentic piano sound. Excellent multi timbre coupled with easy handling, producing a stunning sound. Version: 2.1 Developer: Wahnsyn Format: VSTi Bit depth: 32bit Medicine: Disinfected System requirements: Windows
It was back in the fifties when German inventor Ernst Zacharias invented one of the funkiest keyboards of all times. At first the intention was to make a portable version of a cembalo, but it soon turned into one of the most used keyboards in rock and pop music. You will certainly recognize it in the famous pop… Read More »
The basic idea of Supreme Pianos is coming from 3D graphic rendering. It uses Physical modeling to shape the sound’s “skeleton” of the piano, and then mapping a series of harmony components on to the skeleton to achieve an authentic sound. Supreme Pianos does not rely on sampling, has a small memory footprint and extreme low CPU usage… Read More »
The 1901 Upright Studio Piano is the most comprehensive deep-sampled Upright ever created. Recorded and processed at 24-Bit / 96Khz at our famous British Studio through a large custom NEVE desk. The 1901 Upright Studio Piano contains both standard and prepared articulations. All standard sustain samples were recorded with both pedal up, pedal down and half pedal positions.… Read More »
With Cinematic Studio Piano, we invite you to take a seat at a Yamaha C7 Grand in a world-class scoring stage. You’ll be inspired by the warm, realistic sound of the instrument, captured by an array of beautiful ribbon and condenser microphones and recorded using the same techniques as the rest of the Cinematic Studio Series. CSP’s intelligent… Read More »
The 1990 Studio Grand Piano is amongst one of our favourite virtual instruments ever done. This extraordinary library contains over 48.000 samples and unique microphones/positions, including Neumann 87’s, Coles, Neve SE Ribbon’s, AKG 414’s and Neumann KM 184’s. Everything was lovingly recorded & processed at 96k at a famous hi-tech British Studio through one of the greatest custom… Read More »
The Siel Orchestra 2 is made up of four sections : Brass, Piano, Reeds and Strings. The original Siel Orchestra was bought by ARP and relabeled the Quartet. Presented here for use with Kontakt is the Orchestra 2 with lots of extra features added. We sampled this synth twice: one set of samples are totally clean and recorded… Read More »
Trap Royalty boasts 55 construction kits of modern Trap and Hip Hop in the styles of Baauer, 2 Chains, Diplo, Skrillex, Lil Wayne, Buku, The Weekend, DJ Khaled and more! This library is extremely diverse, providing elements and tracks that break out of the traditional Trap and Hip Hop genre and explore the EDM, minimal, and downtempo vibe… Read More »